A GLIMPSE OF ALGEBRAIC K-THEORY: Eric M. Friedlander

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1 A GLIMPSE OF ALGEBRAIC K-THEORY: Eric M. Friedlander During the first three days of September, 1997, I had the privilege of giving a series of five lectures at the beginning of the School on Algebraic K-Theory and Applications at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. What follows are the written notes of my lectures, essentially in the form distributed to the audience. I am especially grateful to Professor Adremi Kuku for the opportunity to participate in this workshop and whose encouragement motivated me to prepare these informal notes. Lecture I: K 0 ( ) and K 1 ( ) Perhaps the first new concept that arises in the study of K-theory, and one which recurs frequently, is that of the group completion of an abelian monoid. The basic example: the group completion of the monoid N of natural numbers is the group Z of integers. Recall that an abelian monoid M is a set together with a binary, associative, commutative operation + : M M M and a distinguished element 0 M which serves as an identify (i.e., 0 + m = m for all m M). Then we define the group completion γ : M M + by setting M + equal to the quotient of the free abelian group with generators [m], m M modulo the subgroup generated by elements of the form [m]+[n] [m+n] and define γ : M M + by sending m M to [m]. We frequently refer to M + as the Grothendieck group of M. Universal property. Let M be an abelian monoid and γ : M M + denote its group completion. Then for any homomorphism φ : M A from M to a group A, there exists a unique homomorphism φ + : M + A such that φ + γ = φ : M A. This leads almost immediately to K-theory. Let R be a ring (always assumed associative with unit, but not necessarily commutative). Recall that an (always assumed left) R-module P is said to be projective if there exists another R-module Q such that P Q is a free R-module. Definition I.1. Let P(R) denote the abelian monoid (with respect to ) of isomorphism classes of finitely generated projective R-modules. Then we define K 0 (R) to be P(R) +. Warning: The group completion map γ : P(R) K 0 (R) is frequently not injective. One of the exercises asks you to verify that if j : R S is a ring homomorphism and if P is a finitely generated projective R-module, then S R P is a finitely Partially supported by the N.S.F., N.S.A., and the Humboldt Foundation 1 Typeset by AMS-TEX

2 2 ERIC M. FRIEDLANDER generated projective S-module. Using the universal property of the Grothendieck group, you should also check that this construction determines j : K 0 (R) K 0 (S). Indeed, we see that K 0 ( ) is a (covariant) functor from rings to abelian groups. Example If R = F is a field, then a finitely generated F -module is just a finite dimensional F -vector space. Two such vector spaces are isomorphic if and only if they have the same dimension. Thus, P(F ) N and K 0 (F ) = Z. Example. Let K/Q be a finite field extension of the rational numbers (K is said to be a number field) and let O K K be the ring of algebraic integers in K. Thus, O is the subring of those elements α K which satisfy a monic polynomial p α (x) Z[x]. Recall that O K is a Dedekind domain. The theory of Dedekind domains permits us to conclude that K 0 (O K ) = Z Cl(K) where Cl(K) is the ideal class group of K. A well known theorem of Minkowski asserts that Cl(K) is finite for any number field K (cf. [Rosenberg]). Computing class groups is devilishly difficult. We do know that there only finitely many cyclotomic fields (i.e., of the form Q(ζ n ) obtained by adjoining a primitive n-th root of unity to Q) with class group {1}. The smallest n with non-trivial class group is n = 23 for which Cl(Q(ζ 23 )) = Z/3. A check of tables shows, for example, that Cl(Q(ζ 100 )) = Z/65. The K-theory of integral group rings has several important applications in topology. For a group π, the integral group ring Z[π] is defined to be the ring whose underlying abelian group is the free group on the set [g], g π and whose ring structure is defined by setting [g] [h] = [g h]. Thus, if π is not abelian, then Z[π] is not a commutative ring. Application. Let X be a path-connected space with the homotopy type of a C.W. complex and with fundamental group π. Suppose that X is a retract of a finite C.W. complex. Then the Wall finiteness obstruction is an element of K 0 (Z[π]) which vanishes if and only if X is homotopy equivalent to a finite C.W. complex. We now consider topological K-theory for a topological space X. This is also constructed as a Grothendieck group and is typically easier to compute than algebraic K-theory of a ring R. Moreover, results first proved for topological K-theory have both motivated and helped to prove important theorems in algebraic K-theory. Definition I.2. Let F denote either the real numbers R or the complex numbers C. An F-vector bundle on a topological space X is a continuous open surjective map p : E X satisfying (a.) For all x X, p 1 (x) is a finite dimensional F-vector space. (b.) There are continuous maps E E E, F E E which provide the vector space structure on p 1 (x), all x X. (c.) For all x X, there exists an open neighborhood U x X, an F-vector space V, and a homeomorphism ψ x : V U x p 1 (U x ) over U x (i.e., pr 2 = p ψ x : V U x U x ) compatible with the structure in (b.). Examples. Let X = S 1, the circle. The projection of the Möbius band M to its equator p : M S 1 is a rank 1, real vector bundle over S 1. Let X = S 2, the 2-sphere. Then the projection p : T S 2 S 2 of the tangent bundle is a non-trivial

3 A GLIMPSE OF ALGEBRAIC K-THEORY: 3 vector bundle. Let X = S 2, but now view X as the complex projective line, so that points of X can be viewed as complex lines through the origin in C 2 (i.e., complex subspaces of C 2 of dimension 1). Then there is a natural rank 1, complex line bundle E X whose fibre above x X is the complex line parametrized by x; if E o(x) X denotes the result of removing the origin of each fibre, then we can identify E o(x) with C 2 {0}. Definition I.3. Let V ect F (X) denote the abelian monoid (with respect to ) of isomorphism classes of F-vector bundles of X. We define K 0 top(x) = V ect C (X) +, KO 0 top(x) = V ect R (X) +. (This definition will agree with our more sophisticated definition of topological K-theory given in Definition III.2 provided that the X has the homotopy type of a finite dimensional C.W. complex.) The reason we use a superscript 0 rather than a subscript 0 for topological K- theory is that it determines a contravariant functor. Namely, if f : X Y is a continuous map of topological spaces and if p : E Y is an F-vector bundle on Y, then pr 2 : E Y X X is an F-vector bundle on X. This determines f : K 0 top(y ) K 0 top(x). Example. Let n S 2 denote the trivial rank n, real vector bundle over S 2 (i.e., pr 2 : R n S 2 S 2 ). Then T S 2 1 S 2 3 S 2. We conclude that V ect R (S 2 ) KOtop(S 0 2 ) is not 1-1. Here is an early theorem of Richard Swan relating algebraic and topological K-theory. You can find a full proof, for example, in [Rosenberg]. Swan s Theorem. Let F = R (respectively, = C), let X be a compact Hausdorff space, and let C(X, F) denote the ring of continuous functions X F. For any E V ect F (X), define the F-vector space of global sections Γ(X, E) to be Γ(X, E) = {s : X E continuous; p s = id X }. Then sending E to Γ(X, E) determines isomorphisms KO 0 top(x) K 0 (C(X, R)), K 0 top(x) K 0 (C(X, C)). So far, we have only considered degree 0 algebraic and topological K-theory. Before we consider K n (R), n N, K n top(x), n Z, we look explicitly at K 1 (R). Denote by GL n (R) the group of invertible n n matrices in R (i.e., an element of GL n (R) is an n n matrix with entries in R and which admits a two-sided inverse under matrix multiplication). Denote by GL(R) the union over n of GL n (R), where the inclusion GL n (R) GL n+1 (R) sends an n n matrix (a i,j ) to the (n+1) (n+1) matrix whose (i, j)-th entry equals a i,j if both i, j are n, whose (n+1, n+1)-entry is 1, and whose other entries are 0.

4 4 ERIC M. FRIEDLANDER Definition I.4. For any ring R, we define K 1 (R) by K 1 (R) = GL(R)/[GL(R), GL(R)], where [GL(R), GL(R)] denotes the commutator subgroup of GL(R). Thus, K 1 (R) is the maximal abelian quotient group of GL(R). The following plays an important role in further developments in algebraic K- theory. Whitehead Lemma. [GL(R), GL(R)] GL(R) is the normal subgroup generated by elementary matrices (i.e., those matrices with at most one non-zero diagonal element and with diagonal elements all equal to 1). Example If R is a commutative ring, then sending an invertible n n matrix to its determinant determines a well defined surjective homomorphism det : K 1 (R) R = {invertible elements in R}. The kernel of det is denoted SK 1 (R). If R = C[x 0, x 1, x 2 ]/x 1 + x 2 + x 3 1, then SK 1 (R) = Z. The following theorem is not at all easy, but it does tell us that nothing surprising happens for rings of integers in number fields. Theorem of Bass-Milnor-Serre. If O K is the ring of integers in a number field K, then SK 1 (O K ) = 0. Application The work of Bass-Milnor-Serre was dedicated to solving the following question: is every subgroup H SL(O K ) of finite index a congruent subgroup (i.e., of the form ker{sl(o K ) SL(O/p n )} for some prime ideal p O K. The preceding theorem is complemented by the following classical result due to Dirichlet (cf. [Rosenberg]). Dirichlet s Theorem. Let O K be the ring of integers in a number field K. Then O K = µ(k) Z r 1+r 2 1 where µ(k) K denotes the finite subgroup of roots of unity and where r 1 (respectively, r 2 ) denotes the number of embeddings of K into R (resp., number of conjugate pairs of embeddings of K into C). Application Let π be a finitely generated group and consider the Whitehead group W h(π) = K 1 (R)/{±g; g π}. A homotopy equivalence of finite complexes with fundamental group π has an invariant (its Whitehead torsion ) in W h(π) which determines whether or not this is a simple homotopy equivalence (given by a chain of elementary expansions and elementary collapses ). Much of our discussion in future lectures will require the language and concepts of category theory. Indeed, working with categories will give us a method to consider various kinds of K-theories simultaneously.

5 A GLIMPSE OF ALGEBRAIC K-THEORY: 5 I shall assume that you are familiar with the notion of an abelian category, the standard example of which is the category Mod R of R-modules for some ring R or the category Mod fg R of finitely generated R-modules (in which case we must take R to be Noetherian). Recall that in an abelian category A, the set of morphisms Hom A (B, C) for any A, B Obj A has the natural structure of an abelian group; moreover, for each A, B Obj A, there is an object B C which is both a product and a coproduct; moreover, any f : A B in Hom A (A, B) has both a kernel and a cokernel. In an abelian category, we can work with exact sequences just as we do in the category of abelian groups. Warning. P(R) is not an abelian category. For example, if R = Z, then n : Z Z is a homomorphism of projective R-modules whose kernel is not projective and thus is not in P(Z). Definition I.5. An exact category P is a full additive subcategory of some abelian category A such that (a.) There exists some set S Obj A such that every A Obj A is isomorphic to some element of S. (b.) If 0 A 1 A 2 A 3 0 is an exact sequence in A with both A 1, A 3 Obj P, then A 2 Obj P. An admissible monomorphism (respectively, epimorphism) in P is a monomorphism A 1 A 2 (resp., A 2 A 3 ) in P which fits in an exact sequence of the form of (b.). Definition I.6. If P is an exact category, we define K 0 (P) to be the group completion of the abelian monoid defined as the quotient of the monoid of isomorphism classes of objects of P (with respect to ) modulo the equivalence relation [A 2 ] [A 1 ] [A 3 ] for every exact sequence of the form (I.5.b). One of the exercises asks you to show that K 0 (R) equals K 0 (P R ), where P R is the exact category of finitely generated projective R-modules. Important example Let Mod fg R Mod R be the exact category of finitely generated R-modules. Then we give a special name to the 0-th K-group of this category: G 0 (R) K 0 (Mod fg R ). Definition I.7. Let P be an exact category in which all exact sequences split. Consider pairs (A, α) where A Obj P and α is an automorphism of A. Direct sums and exact sequences of such pairs are defined in the obvious way. Then K 1 (P) is defined to be the group completion of the abelian monoid defined as the quotient of the monoid of isomorphism classes of such pairs modulo the relations given by short exact sequences. You can find a proof in [Rosenberg] that K 1 (P R ) equals K 1 (R).

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